In my exalted career as a truck driver, I've been all over Canada, and it's somewhat obvious - especially if you frequent the kind of establishment that a trucker feels at home in - that racist attitudes towards natives are much more prevalent in most of canada than in Alberta or BC.

I'd almost say that it gets worse the farther east you go, except that Saskatchewan is already dramatically worse than we are when it comes to that sort of thing.

I have an old saxon surname that sounds native to Canadians, so I've always been sensitive to racism. As a younger man I never would have guessed that Albertan attitudes towards natives were the least racist in all of Canada, what with our reputation and all.